Robert Watcher
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Driving the country roads this evening my wife and I noticed the huge moon to the east, while the sun was getting lower in the sky directly across to the west. I started to head home to get a camera and go back - when i remembered that I had my Olympus E-510 and 70-300 lens in the back seat from the weekend.
I found this baren tree that lined up perfectly with the moon - - - took some shots with it to the side and these ones with the moon tangled in the branches. Handholding, I grabbed two shots - - - one with the tree in focus and moon obviously out of focus - and the other with the moon in focus and tree blurred.
My intent was to combine the two images in Photoshop so that both moon and tree branches would be in focus. When I had made the overaly and added a Multiply Blend Mode to the top (smaller, angled) layer, there was a really cool effect of a darker overlay on top of light. I accentuated that effect by cutting out some sections - and then ran it through an Old Paper Filter where I played with the brown color intensity. This is my result, which I quite like:
Daylight Moon Through Branches
I found this baren tree that lined up perfectly with the moon - - - took some shots with it to the side and these ones with the moon tangled in the branches. Handholding, I grabbed two shots - - - one with the tree in focus and moon obviously out of focus - and the other with the moon in focus and tree blurred.
My intent was to combine the two images in Photoshop so that both moon and tree branches would be in focus. When I had made the overaly and added a Multiply Blend Mode to the top (smaller, angled) layer, there was a really cool effect of a darker overlay on top of light. I accentuated that effect by cutting out some sections - and then ran it through an Old Paper Filter where I played with the brown color intensity. This is my result, which I quite like:
Daylight Moon Through Branches